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Should employers offer TOIL if they don't have contracted overtime payments?

Posted in : Seamus Says - Employment Law Discussion on 5 April 2019
Seamus McGranaghan
O'Reilly Stewart Solicitors
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Should an employer be offering time in lieu if they do not have contracted overtime payments within the contract? Or does it not matter if you stay within the 48-hour maximum working week, unless somebody is contracted out of that?

Seamus: I think this is based on one of the questions that we had last month. This question kind of suggests that there's a link between overtime and the 48-hour max. They're two separate things there. I think the employer will probably need to start by looking at . . . I know they said they don't have contracted overtime payment, but check your contracts to make sure. If someone hasn't been there for years, and the contract potentially says something

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This article is correct at 05/04/2019
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Seamus McGranaghan
O'Reilly Stewart Solicitors

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